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To surrender one’s vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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In memory Venice is always magic.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
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Women’s propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
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Desire creates its own object.
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Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.
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Italians’ relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn’t care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.
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Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
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Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.
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Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.
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The best work is a fusion of love and praise.
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Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life’s abiding pleasures.
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Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
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How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.
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